Howto use certificates from letsencrypt.org with cyrus

Thomas Luft thomas at die-lufts.org
Thu Dec 10 19:45:25 CET 2015


Hi Thomas,

I thought that I could use these certificates also for other services? Postfix is using them without any problems?!

Kind regards 

Thomas 

> Am 10.12.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Thomas Spuhler <thomas.spuhler at btspuhler.com>:
> 
>> On Thursday, December 10, 2015 03:45:12 PM Thomas Luft wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> at http://letsencrypt.org one can get free and valid SSL certificates.
>> After registration of the server I have three files: privkey.pem,
>> cert.pem and chainfile.pem
>> 
>> When I try to use these files in /etc/imapd.conf I see that TLS can not
>> be started:
>> 
>> Dec 10 13:52:15 kolab imaps[19580]: unable to get certificate from
>> '/etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/cert.pem'
>> 
>> My imapd.conf looks like this:
>> tls_server_cert:    /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/cert.pem
>> tls_server_key:     /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/privkey.pem
>> tls_server_ca_file: /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/chain.pem
>> 
>> I tried to copy the cert.pem and chown it to cyrus, but this did not
>> help. Does cyrus need a specific format of the cert/key/chain file?
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Thomas
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> When I read on letsencrypt the certs are for apache?
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